Financially troubled anime studio Gonzo is set to undergo massive restructuring, sacking 100 of its 130 employees, rather than the smaller numbers announced earlier, with parent company GDH mandating a return to profitability within 5 years.

However, they set the time frame for these sackings to “within 5 years”, perhaps indicating they are set after all on moving towards a heavily outsourced production style, rather than simply shedding employees as a matter of urgency (which it admittedly is).

All this comes after parent GDH’s call for 50 sacrificial lambs (from its own workforce) to volunteer for the block only resulted in 36 volunteers; this seems unconnected however, as the plan laid out at the start was for a drastic restructuring of how Gonzo produces anime, whereas GDH is committed to lighter cuts.

The precise details of their production plans are not known; they are said to be looking at more “casual” anime, as well as halving output overall though it seems unlikely this will affect the hit loli anime Strike Witches.

fire & losing about 90% of their employees (and the good ones were among these, Im sure! Only the crap knows they are too bad for other studios, so they stay) is a great idea for speed-up their superkill.

They should earn the needed money about merchandising (like SW stuffs, the Sanya bodypillow made an impact to every preorder-shop) and seriously improve their Anime-Quality and not just "Ow, let's reducing our expenditure and fire more people!"

Their whole marketing departement should get fired for chosing constantly the wrong choices!

All that's left now are 30 crappy animators who are able to make this great animation-quality like Linebarrels of Iron...

I'll prefer to bury Strike Witches now, than seeing Gonzo to produce a season 2 with the quality of LoI....

I beg them not to cancel the black lagoon ovas I'd buy all the DVD'S or blue ray's to see it all unfold with fabiola's mini maid rampage, what they need to cash in again is more basilisk or maybe seto no hanayome the show was underrated I loved it

worse when they Try and gel it to the actual animation.. makes it so obivuse i dont mind it when they use cg or computer system to aid in the flow or controle even some smaller elments but when its a core point its just horrible as they just contrast so badly its not even worth watching

Yeah, but more like poor people who got fired because of that. Still, I can't wait to see what will happen next with their production plans. If you look back at their past project, you can see FMP, Chrno Crusade, Last Exile, Sunabouzu and more...